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What are you talking about? iPhone's market share in Japan is higher than just about any other country. I think it may be the only country where it's still above 50%.

Yes, iPhone sale was extremely high last previous year when Docomo started to sell iPhone for their network. But I still find that the Japanese app market for android is more generous in Japan because Android was popular before iPhone in Japan, and they developed these apps before the appearance of iPhone in Japan. I agree that iPhone's market share in Japan is higher than any other country now. To archive that, Docomo and other carriers offer a free contract, (it wont happen for other devices such as Sharp, Fujitsu, Panasonic, and Sony) that's why!

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iPhone was the first Smartphone that really got sold in Japan. When the iPhone started to become popular there were no Android Phones and most Japanese mobile makers still tried to construct their own Smartphones with their own OS before they started to switch to Android.